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Quantum chromodynamics is a fascinating theory that explains the inner nature of visible matter and how the so-called "strong nuclear force" keeps this together. It superficially resembles electromagnetism, but exhibits emergent phenomena that are still challenging us nearly 60 years after its formulation and numerous experimental verifications.

My research aims at understanding two of these phenomena:
-- why the mass of the proton is not equal to the sum of the masses of its constituents (the quarks) but rather to the energy of the gluons that bind these together;
-- and why no free quark or gluon has, in fact, ever been observed experimentally.
My approach combines quantum field theory methods with numerical analysis of large data sets on high-energy scattering processes such as electron-proton collisions at the nearby Jefferson Lab.

You can find my journal articles and recent preprints listed on the INSPIRE HEP archive (https://inspirehep.net/authors/1019006).